ABSENCE of mind, 190.
Abstinence, enforced, 224; how to be acquired, ibid.; excessive, to be avoided, 29, 172.
Abuse, condemned, 442; punishable, 397.
Access to princes, its importance, 399; its difficulty, 400, n., 269, n., 401.
Acid, its hostility to minerals, 332.
Action, essential to wisdom, 21, — to virtue, 66. (See Practice.) Rules for, in speaking, 290.
Active, see Power and School.
Adulation, to be avoided — towards princes, 419—424, — towards friends, 433.
Affection, source of creation, 145. (See Love and Mercy.) By some identified with consistence, 330; held to circulate, 331; necessary where unity subsists, 330; not without mind, 331; human, twofold, 332; spontaneous, of four sorts, 333; from natural affinity, 425; supersedes equity, 144, 329; a wider term than friendship, 334, 352; perfect, what, 336; for good, the only permanent, 333, 339, 345, 349, 355; between parties, (see Relation.) May terminate at different times, 343.
Affinity, spiritual, 81, 303; relative, 426; magical, 229; source of spontaneous affection, 426.
Age, respect to, 281.
Agriculture, its importance, 254, 389; a source of income, 252; compared with other sources, 253, n.
Air, its functions, 389.
Alacrity, what, — recommended, 158.
Alms-giving, a part of ritual, 257, n.; its efficacy, 259.
Ambition, its effect on character, 431.
Amputation, metaphorical, 249, 395; literal, 395; considered, Addenda ad fin.
Amulets, their use, how ancient, 230, n.
Ancient (writers), what, 8, n.
Angels, immaterial, 15; compared with man, 19, 234; worship him, 316; outposts of, 338; witness creation, 259; converse with God, ibid., 456.
Anger, (see Power, vindictive.) Seated in the heart, 201, n.; ineradicable, 157, 184, 206; entire suppression of, not desirable, 184, n., 205; defined, described, cured, 181, et seq.; causes and consequences of, 184; most formidable in the gentle, 183; a sort of madness, 185, 201; bars adjudication, 183, et seq.; different degrees of, liability to, 182, — of kings, long-lived, 209.
Animals, how far homogeneous with men, 79, 80, 160; how far heterogeneous, 85, 93, 79, 176; their place in being, 118, 316; their natural perfection, 178; provision for procreation of, 146; gregarious or otherwise, 317; appearance of, why uniform, 85.
Appearance, on what it depends, 85.
Application, in excess, a vice of reason, 171.
Aptitude, innate, 284, 285, n.; how and why determined, ib., 320, n.; to be always consulted, ib., 307, 310, 448.
Art, a derivative of nature, 147; its processes, ib.
Artfulness, what, and whence, 171.
Arts, inventions (under revelation), 45; from what faculty, 54; how to be acquired, 152; all comprised in that of government, 328.
Arrogance, description and cure of, 192.
Assault, a public wrong, 397.
Astrology, practice and rationale of, 285, n., 361.
Astronomy, æras in Muhammedan, 6, 11, n., 219, n.
Attack, public, rules for, see War; private, 445.
Attraction, of cohesion, 233, 234, n.; of affinity, 330, 332, 426; of temperament, 229, 426.
Attributes, divine, 2, 116, 306; human, defined, 38.
Audience, public, 399. See Access.
Authority, (see Prince, Government.) Twin of right, 457; wears out, 196; how to be exercised, 399.
Avarice, 143; destructive to the character, 282.
Balance, a sacred symbol of equity, 128, n.; of powers, see Equipoise.
Ban, of the Arabs, 444.
Banishment, what, and for what purpose, 394.
Barrenness in wives, to be avoided, 263.
Barter, see Interchange.
Battery, a public wrong, 397.
Beauty, on what depending, 117, 122, 232; an advantage, 306; how perishable, 187; in a wife, 264, — dangerous, ib.; of truth, 237, — of the Persians’ God, 306.
Being, its two processes, 363, 364, n.
Benedictions, how and when used, 50, n.
Benefits, political, three species of, 396; limitation to, 408.
Bigotry, a vice of reason, 171.
Birds, Arab fables concerning, 28, n.
Blood, the vehicle of life, 181.
Body, no essential part of being, 212, 2, n., — but of nature, 408. (See Soul.) Composed of discordant elements, 335; how, 216, 315. (See Temperament, Humours, Life.) Influence of on mind, 157, 173, 338; influenced by mind, ib., 207; may be practically discarded, 337. (See Death.) Not entirely, ib.
Boldness, a species of courage, 71.
Bounty, 408. See Charity, Benefaction.
Bridge of good works, 103.
Brotherhood, a species of equity, 81.
Brothers, regard of, precarious, 348.
Cadence, on what depending, 117.
Calamity of enemies, no subject for joy, 443.
Caliphat, properly or loosely, what, 5, n., 378, n.; powers of, how distributed, 136.
Caliphs, four first, 379, n.
Capital, insecure, 253.
Caste, traces of, 37, n., 238, 374, n.
Censure, its use, 248, 277; its danger, 278.
Chamberlain (Hajāb), his office and influence, 134, 269.
Character, unalterable, 38, 46, 48, — how formed, 155, 381, 454.
Charity, (see Alms.) Its relation to equity, 143, — only from our own goods, 144.
Cheerfulness, 158; how placed, 238.
Children, their procreation provided for, 150; value of, 6, 263, n.; when humanized, 151; rules for the education of, 275; often disappoint us, 216; to be early settled, 286; care less for their parents than these for them, 347.
Christianity, unconsciously defended, 23, 144, 232, 357.
Chronology, Asiatic, 404, n.
City, how meant, 321; depends on territory, 408. See State.
Classes, of mankind, 367, et seq. (See State, Pests.) Of the good but one, of the bad infinite, 365.
Clay, habit of eating, 382, n. See Addenda.
Clearness of understanding, a species of wisdom, 69.
Clumsiness, 171.
Collectedness, a species of courage, 70.
Commendable, a term for proper and right, 52, 71, et passim.
Commendation, when and why bestowed, 67, — as an instrument of guidance, 248, 277.
Commerce, its importance, 389.
Companions of Muhammad, 4.
Company, its influence, 155, 381.
Complaisance towards wives, how and why to be observed, 265.
Concealment of offences, not to be calculated on, 211, 278, 280.
Conceit, dangers of, 160; cure of, 186.
Condescension, a species of courage, 72.
Conjecture, the characteristic of secondary intellects, 369; Hindus noted for, 311.
Conscience, 215, n.
Consequences, general — law of, applied, 191, 396, 436, 447, n.; particular, to be well considered, 445.
Contemplation, one of the roads to wisdom, 14, 159. See Absence.
Contemporaries, their influence, 381.
Content, a species of temperance, 74, 238.
Contentiousness, a vice of reason, 171; its misehief, 191, 386. See Disagreement.
Continence, a species of temperance, 73.
Contraries, pass into each other, 17, 116; irreconcilable, 175; how virtues of each other. (See Excess and Deficiency.) How virtues of the vices, 99, 170.
Coolness, a species of courage, 71; its value, 425.
Co-operation, of means, with natural processes, 313, — of three sorts, ib., — of every thing with man, 315, — of men with each other, 318.
Cordiality, a species of equity, 82, 157.
Corporeality, 338. See Body.
Counterfeit virtues, 88, et seq.
Courage, how derived, 55, 57, 151, 164; defined, 65; its species, 69; necessitates liberality, 77; counterfeits of, 93.
Court, its decorum, 134, — etiquette, 270, 417, 419, — favour, 426; use of attendance on, 419; dangers of, 418, 425.
Courteousness, 452.
Covetousness, in private persons, 283, 422, 431, — in princes, 200, 383, 455.
Cowardice, a generic vice, 109.
Creation, its object, 415, — process, 358, et seq.
Crimes and misdemeanours, distinction between, 398.
Culture (moral), subject of, (see Powers); object of, (see Vice-regence); course of, 148, et seq.; should imitate production, ib.; details of, (see Proprieties); when commences, 276.
Cup of Jamshíd, 38, n. See Addenda.
Cure, different modes of, 174; mental, details of, 169, et seq.